The Biggest Mistake a Pelican Can Make

I did a lot of pier fishing in florida years ago. There were always a couple of big brown pelicans who would hang around and try to steal my bait or grab a pinfish when you got it out of the water. I got mad at one and kept trying to scare it away. An old man told me "you know that pelican is so old and blind he can't dive in the water and catch fish anymore.? That's why he is stealing and begging for fish." Apparently when they get older they go blind from diving in the water after fish. I never knew that or even thought about it. So after that I would always throw the old pelicans a fish or 2 when I was fishing for bait. That old man completely changed my attitude about pelicans.

Wow, that pelican looked like it got in a fight with Freddie Krueger. Turtle tore him all to shreds. Was interesting to watch. Great video

Big fish: dont eat me you will choke Pelecan: dont care Pelecan: "chokes"

The fact that people are surprised that “herbivores all eat meat occasionally “ is getting old

I used to have a turtle from the desert Sibi in the north of Pakistan. Then, in the 70's, there weren't any rules concerning turtles from the wild. Several years later my father was retired and my family moved back to Europe. Of course my turtle came with us. She acted like a dog and would respond to calls. She loved to eat tomatoes and fresh salad. Sibi, named after the place she was from, always lived in the garden, never in a cage. So when she came to Austria, we thought we would have to take her inside in the winter. This we did three times. But then in this one year, winter came around very early. And when we went in the garden to look for Sibi, we couldn't find her. I was devastated, because I thought she was dead. But in spring, when the warming sunrays hit the garden, Sibi turned up. And she was way stronger than in all the other years, when we had done everything to reduce her diet and give her a bath before she would go to sleep during the winter. It turned out, that Sibi stayed in the compost all winter. So from then on, we always made sure, that she had a compost bedding of her own, and also covered with a metal plate, so neither could heavy snow pressure her, nor could water get on her. She was so strong and healthy. Until my stupid sister, who had moved back in with my parents because one of her lovers had left her again, until she decided to make a pond. I told her to watch out and make it secure for Sibi. But she didn't and so Sibi drowned wen being with us for 30 years. Sibi was no carnivore. I once tried out to give her meat, but she didn't eat it. Sibi always ate fruits and vegetables, with tomatoes and salad being her favorite meals.

I am still surprised that Pelicans never went extinct despite being too bold to the point of actually gaining fatal injuries or death. Well if Koalas can survive being the dumbest animal on the planet, so can Pelicans.

Those alligator snapping turtles are no joke. You do not want a body part near their mouths. Not surprised about about tortoises being able to eat meat. There is a reason they have lasted this long. Was fun to watch. Great video

Why are the pelican's damaged pouches pixelated to prevent us from viewing the damage ? Are we considered to be too delicate to see the extent of the damage that is sometimes likely to result in the death of the pelican?

What was with the green screen turtle chasing the green screen bird?Did you not notice how off it was!?

A pelican going after a snapping turtle? That pelican must be suicidal.

I love how the narrator is informative and interesting at the same time as seeming as surprised and amazed as we are while reading his script!😄

Pelican life is so tuff, literally a little claw can fuck up its life

I think it's truly awesome that there are people out there that would do that without having to get money for it.

Food is food to an animal, no matter where it comes from. Almost all 'herbivores' are opportunistic carnivores and will not turn down meat if they can get it. Cows? Yup. Horses? 100% Small deer?! They actually hunt down defenceless chicks during the spring. Rabbits? No problem attacking and eating wounded birds.

I like how he is happy that the pelican is rescued (which I’m glad it was rescued). But he doesn’t know how sadistic pelicans can be

Pelicans are the definition of "Biting more than you can chew."

The pain that pelican must be in…

I never thought about it much until now, but I wonder if the throat pouches show up in pelican fossils and I wonder if many pterosaurs and other flying dinosaurs may have had huge throat pouches but we just can't tell from the fossils because of how fragile the skin could be.

While fishing in the Florida Keys, when we cleaned our fish at the pier we had to pay the "Pelican Tax". This is the leftover scraps we had to constantly throw at the pelicans. As long as we paid the tax they would leave our fish alone. But if you didn't pay, they stole your best fish right off the table.

You know what's funny bout a Pelican? His beak can hold more, than his belly can.

Way back in the 60s when I was a girl in Africa, we always made sure our pet tortoises had a balanced diet by including chongololos (aka giant African millipedes). I'm really surprised that scientists didn't know tortoises were omnivorous.

That tortious dramatization is exactly why we love your channel, its when you take on the character of the animals bro, loll!

With sleepy eyes I read it the biggest mistake a politician can make, and was like finally someone explaining the corruptions going on around 😂

Who did you hire to edit the snapping turtle graphics from 6:45 till the end of the video? They looked totally amazing and so real!

The mangled beak is one of the most disturbing things I've had to see and think about for a while.

I can’t believe you made a video about hurt pelicans and CENSORED the images of the hurt pelicans. Unbelievable.

the pelican deserved it all

reminds me of my self after 2 am " turning to pelikan "

''The Biggest Mistake a Pelican Can Make'' *proceeds to talk about turtles*

Many sharks have to close their eyes to open jaws wide enough for a bite..so they technically just bite at prey hoping they hit

Thanks for highlighting the unnecessary censorship!

it's amazing how pelicans aren't extinct at this point.

I remember seeing the footage of the tortoise in the Seychelles hunting a flightless bird trapping it at the edge of a fallen tree (which jumping off would be a death sentence for such a small flightless bird).

Hands down the best channel on KZhead. Idk how you guys do this!

It's not just tortoise that every now and then snacks on lil birds, i'v seen moose just floking around picking up chicks practising flight and just munch on em.

Lmao the Harry Potter joke at the end😂 Great video as always, super entertaining and informative!

My whole life, I have wondered what is the biggest mistake a pelican can make. Now I finally know.

An animal that will put anything in it's mouth to see if it's edible... My spirit animal...

Even at 2M subs this cannel is stupidly underrated! First time I’ve found a video in my recommended and I’ve been learning crazy and crazy fucked up facts all day. 100/10, subbed and staying.

Even if a Pelican, doesn't mean a Pelishould

Two guys in a kayak were spit out of a whale mouth in a different video. They both survived with little harm done to them.

Pilecans are nearer to dinosaurs, than a scavenger eagle

I love how you explained the whole video. Somehow mellow and serious.

That thumbnail is making my skin crawl for some reason but i cant stop looking at it. Poor thing.

Weird to talk about how pelicans will eat anything and NOT show that clip recorded in Central Park of a pelican nomming a pigeon.

Funny story: my brother when he was little, he showed my turtle his tongue and she bit him XD, well he learnd his lesson

It’s probably a good thing pelicans are not the size of gorillas

the only pelican I know tells me to hydrate constantly and speaks with an Australian accent

That pelican looks like he had a fight with scissors ✂️ and he lost

I've read about pelicans scoffing small dogs, more than once in Paris France. Some woman is walking her chihuahua on a leash on one occasion I've always chuckled about when I remember it , when a Pelican lands beside them, and promptly gobbles up the small animal, flying away.. I can't get the idea of what her face must have looked like as it happened.

If you could show us the wounds instead of blurring them out that would be good

Regarding the walleye, I bet it was the spiky dorsals that got caught in the bird’s throat. I’d wager a pelican could consume a similar size northern pike.

Good that you've pixelated all the interesting images in the clip after you've shocked us with your unpixelated thumbnail 🤣👍

The turtle scenario is life. It’s natural. The fish hook story is what bothers me.

Animals fights or collisions can be deadly like this. Thanks for the info watop

First 3 seconds is my favorite part of any video these guys make lol

Turtles are prehistoric creatures just like alligators and crocodiles. They endured millions years of hell on Earth!

In Louisiana snapping turtles and pelicans are abundant in the wild. Tbh I'd rather deal with alligator than a snapping turtle. Those turtles swim fast and are more aggressive than gators. Gators rather run away than bite. I've seen snapping turtles chasing dogs and people out of the water..

It's as if a pitcher plant grew wings.

Seeing these pelicans make me feel my chin skin without touching it

Wow. That video was all over the place. So should we assume that pelican was left to starve. Nothing was mentioned about helping it. Another was mentioned with the same injury that was helped and released, but nothing about this one. Or did I miss it?

9:58 this is not true, even google says the strongest snapping turtle is the alligator snapping turtle.

I've raised a common snapping turtle from hatchling to 9 years, at which point he was released. Miss my little "Chubby," and hope he's eating well!

Eating the bird that's ridding you of your ticks.. now that's some serious betrayal right there

There is a famous pelican in London that has a taste for pigeons. You can find it on youtube

I catch and fix up injured turtles and I do this by using a barbless hook with a BRIGHT red bobber 1 inch above the hook. I usually use hotdogs as bait and it always works. I also use a chain-mill net that the soft shells offer break.

This is just fantastic to learn about these pretty bizarre animals

Just because a Pelican doesn't mean a PeliSHOULD

Claim your here before an hour here is your ticket

i used to feed anything to my turtles from fish, vegetables, fruits, and even meat or insects they love it

Loved seeing some anti-pelican justice for a change. I haven't felt this good since seeing the much-smaller Peter Brady kick the much-bigger Buddy Hinton's teeth in, back in 1970.

I love your channel watop!

My mom has small palm size land tortoises to control her cockroach infestation. She also feeds them canned dog food for meals when the roaches are diminished. They have survived for many many years and have names.

I highly doubt that much damage was done by a softshell turtle. It was most likely a species of snapping turtle. Their jaws not only have a much stronger biting force, they are also very sharp and talon-shaped so they come to a point and work much the same way that scissors work, by shearing flesh at the base of the jaw and working forward as the bite occurs.

Pelican: lol look at that abomination Turtle: WHAT DID U SAY U BIRD ABOMINATION Pelican: MY MOUTH WHAT HAVE U DONE Turtle: want more?

Intrusive thought won and it turned into a turtle video. Imo that tangent just shows your passion for animals! Love this account

Pelicans are amazing. If you go to Xcaret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and float in the lagoon on one of the tubes they provide, the wild pelicans nearby will divebomb underneath you to get to the little fish that gather in your shadow. It was an incredible experience. I thought they would hit me, because they dive so fast, but they are extremely accurate. They divebomb so close to you that you will get splashed. I had no idea that their beak pouches were this fragile though.

Poor and uneducated me who used to think, turtles are pretty harmless 😭

Thumbnails looks like the pelican got a lesson from Stewie family guy.

These birds don't realize that just because a pelican doesn't mean a pelishould

Hahahahaha, . Keep up the good work brother.

I bet vegans are throwing their phones when the find out that lots of herbivores often eat baby birds when they get the chance

And here I thought the thumbnail was photoshop ☠️

Why are the pics blurred?! I only clicked the link because I wanted to see the shredded throat pouch

Fun fact: the ancient Chinese trained pelicans to fish for them. The pelican would catch the fish and hold it in its pouch. Then the bird would fly back to the human. They would split the meal and no one would go to bed hungry.

It feels nice to be this early. 😌

Coffee intro never gets old....most interesting channel in youTube....

That capybara footage was clearly doctored.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how much time and e ffort he puts in the videos for us. 😇

I find it incredibly odd how humanity feels some obligation to help some wild animals, like pelicans who take on other strong animals, but don't feel any real obligation to just avoid harming those animals themselves. Take the typical modern day fishing vessel, for example. It's an absolute horror show in terms of killing, maiming, and destroying the habitats of billions of wild sea animals and that gets largely ignored. But then we all feel good when we hear of a tiny number of wild animals rehabbed from unfortunate nonhuman forces.

the thumbnail looks so friking wrong yet so fricking right at the same time

Gumball and his family would be so happy to meet this menace turtle again.

I never expected turtles would be such a predator

dam i kinda feel bad

Wow, the injury looks just like pixels. Hate when that happens.

Them thumbnails photoshop skill bro 😂😂 I can’t 💀💀

My only issue with people helping heal pelicans that get injured, is you doom the species to stagnation

i have exactly the same turtle at my home, I'm keeping it as a pet and i can confirm its bite force is extremely high also its claws are dangerous. i rescued it from the wild and i'm having it with me since 2014 and it's a small one weighing around 900g i even got another one to keep its company but it severely injured the new turtle so i had no choice but to keep them both separately. I'm not a turtle expert and i don't know their behavior so if anyone knows them well let me know how to befriend it. it's been over 8 years since i found it and it still hides inside its shell when i hold it

The pigeons are taking notes.

The thumbnail made me shiver